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This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This was the most boring, irritating, complete waste of time imaginable. The only reason I even bothered to look it up was because the movie suddenly ended without any explanation and without ever having a story. When I bought this DVD, I had no warning this was a TV pilot with a hanging ending which made no sense. I looked it up to see if I could get some kind of explanation as to what it was I had wasted all this time watching.I usually like Sci-Fi's. I had no idea this was a pilot for a series. The first time I tried to watch it, I turned it off as soon as they got to the rock star singing the 1960's Munsters TV theme song in Japanese. No Joke! I love Sci-Fi but I certainly didn't buy a space movie to watch civil war scenes and bad rock star concerts or a crew of immature, airhead, boring video game junkies or listen to their nonsensical ego-babbling into the video camera. These are not even decent actors. The females all slurred their words together.I finally tried to watch it a second time a couple years later; using the fast forward to get past those maddening irritations while I kept hoping that something sci-fi was going to show itself at some point when the plot became clear.Watching an entire crew of narcissistic morons who condescend and cast disparagement upon everything their fellow crew members say or experience is an X gen nightmare. Much of the show was more like watching a daily producers meeting behind the scenes at Fox. A network so bad, I deleted them from my TV menu 10 years ago.Even worse was the male crewmembers crass, insensitive, smarta$$ attitude toward 2 female crew members who had been viciously attacked during their virtual reality... especially when it was clear that someone on the ship was hacking the system to use it as a weapon to brutalize their fellow crew members yet they were so totally oblivious they refused to look into the issue or even take it seriously... nor did the males who were attacked bother to speak up to alert the others... instead they joined in the condescending and the total lack of compassion toward the females over this violent assault issue which was extremely disturbing for the viewers because this has been an IRL problem with victims of real attacks. No one wants to put up with a TV show which thinks it is OK to make a joke out of someone being violated. We were also forced to endure the psychological unfitness of this crew for space with their issues of dead children, lost pregnancies & doctors office visits; plus ego programs and how the male crew members actually got off on being killed in their virtual reality encounters which empowered them when off the VR system. Truly bad screen writing and dialogue. The worst casting imaginable. Then there was the mental melt down of the jerk of a captain who they mercifully did away with and then just stopped the show without any closure or sense... forcing us to look up this movie to find some sense out of this complete farce. Clearly not recommended for anyone with an IQ above 60. I suspect some of these "fans" are mostly under the age of 12 or associated with someone involved in the original project.Who would go into an airlock without being fully outfitted, even just to get a tool? Who would ever take a chance of any kind in an airlock? Also, what kind of person would think it was OK to make jokes and condescending comments while someone is trapped inside an airlock? Not to mention the fact that the writer and director seemed to be clueless that there is NO inertia or G force or hull stress or turbulence in weightless space once you are outside of the gravitational pull... not even with a rotating spaceship for internal artificial gravity. Not to mention a space crew depending on a clueless computer that cannot answer any questions about who was in your quarters or follow instructions such as "close" door? Nor did anyone seem interested in diagnosing the computer and virtual reality system for the cause of the failures. They were all too busy focusing on their own entertainment to be concerned. And why would anyone who was violently violated on a virtual reality go back in again? This wasn't a SPACE drama. It was a VIDEO GAME series.This is the one rare time that FOX actually did the right thing by not picking up this series. The true surprise is why anyone would waste money for the production of this pilot in the first place.

I didn't know this was a pilot. I like to be surprised when I rent a movie to some degree. Well I was surprised I waisted a perfectly good Saturday night on this. I concur with the first two critics. I kept waiting for something, anything to happen. Nothing explained, Oh :o, and like I hope they're not going to turn back, after spending Billions of dollars to get there. I dream better (whole movies) than this.As for the spoiler alert, I guess there has to be something to spoil first. I am not really a soap opera guy, I saw the nice packaging and went for the sci-fi. If I can save just one person, this has been worth it.

This film is about the twelve astronauts who are on a spacecraft, going to a distant star that takes ten years to arrive. On board, things start to go wrong and yet they cannot turn back."Virtuality" seems good on paper. It is directed by a famous director, has several known (but not very famous) stars, and an intriguing plot. However, it does not seem to work well. The story might have been interesting, but the delivery of the plot is very confusing. There are many mystifying events on board the spacecraft, and these events are not explained well. I was hoping that the ending would bring some answers, but it brings even more unanswered questions. All the confusion annoys rather than being thought stimulating. In addition, the film fails to grip viewers or to provide suspense for viewers to beg for me. "Virtuality" is a disappointingly confusing film.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. There were elements of unpredictability related to the characters, their development and their interaction that brought a dynamic and a tension to the film that maintained my heightened level of interest. I enjoyed the spartan environment on the Phaeton. It conjured up memories of 2001 A Space Odyssey. I want this series to continue. There are of course - unresolved matters as yet to be dealt with.If there's any way that the captain can be credibly resurrected without injecting smarminess into the storyline it would maintain a character in the continuing series that is especially likable and intriguing. His illicit virtual relationship with the ship's shrink's wife adds additional spice to the development of the series...assuming this becomes one. I genuinely hope that Fox or the SciFi network picks this up.Well done!